Just in case systemd is wrong ...
1) ps ax | grep cup
2) grep -r cup /var/log 

I'm not familiar w/ Ubuntu/Debian, but the first command is simply looks for 
anything in the process table that matches 'cup'.  The second command does a 
recursive search for the pattern in your log files/folder.



On July 3, 2016 11:03:05 AM PDT, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 11:05 PM, John Meissen <j...@meissen.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> denis.heidtm...@gmail.com said:
>> > That is what I did:
>> > sudo systemctl stop cups.service:
>> >    no messages in response.
>> > sudo systemctl restart cups.service.
>> >    Msg: "failed to restart cups.service unit cups.service is
>masked"
>>
>> Have you tried
>>
>>   sudo systemctl unmask cups.service
>>
>>   sudo systemctl enable cups.service
>>
>
>That sounded like a good idea, but this is what I get:
>~$ sudo systemctl unmask cups.service
>[sudo] password for denis:
>Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/cups.service.
>
>~$   sudo systemctl enable cups.service
>cups.service is not a native service, redirecting to
>systemd-sysv-install
>Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable cups
>
>Still not connected.  Tried:
>~$ sudo systemctl restart cups.service
>
>No dice.  The GUI reports "Printing service is not available.  Start
>the
>service on this computer or connect to another server."
>
>The button for "start service" is not active.  If I choose connect, I
>get:
>failed to connect to server.
>
>Aside from fixing this, I wonder what broke it?
>
>-Denis
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